💭 Reflecting on progress since #LabourConference24.
In September, we hosted a fringe event on business rates reform.
Reform remains urgent—reforms must ensure no store pays more. We’ll keep working with policymakers to drive change for thriving high streets.🏪
#businessrates
#BestOf2024..The time when a brave peaceful protester was manhandled after interrupting Rachel Reeves #LabourConference24 speech and demanding to know why Keir Starmer's #Labour Party were still arming Israel! 😡
#Lab24
#DavidLammy
#StopArmingIsrael
#CeasefireNOW 🕊
As part of our 12-day #ChristmasCountdown, we’re sharing resources each day from the past year! ❄️🏰
On Day 11 read this unrolled thread from our CEO @heritagelizzie.bsky.social covering the third and final day of this year’s #LabourConference24 ! Read it here 👉
As part of our 12-day #ChristmasCountdown, we’re sharing resources each day from the past year! ❄️🏰
On Day 10 find out what CEO @heritagelizzie.bsky.social got up to during day 2 of this year’s #LabourConference24 ! Read her thread here 👉https://buff.ly/41PWKhr
As part of our 12-day #ChristmasCountdown, we’re sharing resources each day from the past year! ❄️🏰
On Day 9 we’re sharing what happened on the first day of this year’s #LabourConference24 as chronicled by our CEO @heritagelizzie.bsky.social ! Read it here 👉 https://buff.ly/49LSdhG
So. #labourconference24 cold followed by COVID/flu jab misery followed by getting the wife's cold. Happy Fucktober.
Peter Schrank: #KeirStarmer & his new government has had a terrible start. Somehow they'll have 2 get the wheels back on and get moving in the right direction. #LabourParty #WinterFuelRobbery #WinterFuelPayments #labourconference24 - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Huge thanks to all who came to The Reading Agency & @cilip.bsky.social dinner at #LabourConference24 focused on reading, literacy and opportunity - looking forward to working with you all this Parliament @alexjjnorris.bsky.social @thefabians.bsky.social @gwynnemp.bsky.social
The @WeAreTheMU Musicians' Union had a great stand and campaign at #LabourConference24 to ensure that musicians and artists get paid properly when putting their content out on streaming services.
Dave Simonds on #KeirStarmer #LabourConference2024 #LabourConference24 – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
At the #LabourConference24 I signed the @UsdawUnion campaign to make it a specific offence to assault retail workers.
I was delighted to hear about the work that
@sendmyfriend is doing to encourage world leaders to prioritise education across the world. #EducationEducationEducation #LabourConference24
Delighted to have had the opportunity to speak about the ongoing damage of Brexit and how to rectify it, at the Socialist Societies event at #LabourConference24
🆕 @theasrstein.bsky.social responds to Wes Streeting's speech #LabourConference24.
Spending and the balance of care has always flowed back to the acute sector, so it'll be a big challenge to make the shift from "hospital to community" happen.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/re...
5 thoughts on Keir Starmer’s comments about inactivity & welfare:
1. Many disabled & ill people would like to work.
2. A good job with good support is positive for both individuals & the economy.
BUT
#LabourConference24 1/3
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...
Steven Camley on #KeirStarmer #sausagegate #sausages #LabourConference2024 #LabourConference24 – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Morten Morland on #KeirStarmer #LabourConference2024 #LabourConference24 – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Patrick Blower on #KeirStarmer #LabourConference2024 #LabourConference24 – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Homelessness is a political choice. The promise of homes for veterans, care leavers and domestic abuse victims could have been made at any time in the last 14 years but wasn’t.
#labour #starmer #LabourConference24
Starmer's speech took every accusation levelled against Labour from both the Left and Right and calmly dismantled them via a speech focused on the importance of gov't in protecting and improving people's lives and a direct rejection of the laissez faire Conservative approach.
#LabourConference24
Brilliant to end to another great #LabourConference24 with @ippr.bsky.social with a conversation between Chancellor Rachel Reeves, White House economist Heather Boushey, and Harry Quilter-Pinner
And I get that neither Starmer nor Cooper want to make the moral case for refugee protection in the UK, but they’re gonna find that their compliance with international law arguments ring hollow if they can’t explain why those laws were so important in 1950 & continue to be so #labourconference24
OH KEIR! YOU IGNORED ME! BUT I’M GOING TO BE RIGHT BEHIND YOU!
🎶 “Every step you take…”
#LabourConference24
Starmer is clearly persuaded that people want certainty more than they want hope but it’s depressing to hear him characterise asylum grants as a bitter pill that we’ll have to swallow in pursuit of controlled migration. Would a little positivity really hurt? #LabourConference24
YOU WON’T STOP THE QUEUES SO WE’RE NAMING THEM AFTER YOU!
The Brexit queues are a constant reminder for millions of us of just how idiotic Brexit is and how it’s buggering up our lives - AND JUST HOW STUPID YOU ARE FOR NOT GETTING BREXIT UNDONE!
Get real!
#LabourConference24 @Femi_Sorry
If you are following #LabourConference24 pls watch Part 3 of the @aljazeera.com investigative series #TheLobby
See how anybody daring to criticise #Israel was vilified/ostracised/driven out
V illuminating
www.ajiunit.com/investigatio...
Interesting passage in Keir Starmer’s speech, feels like it’s the bit that gets to the heart of their political economy - valuing dynamic markets but a strong advocacy of the role of ‘decisive government’ in managing (or at times ‘controlling’) them. #LabourConference24
Jimmy Carter was already on the way out when he gave his so-called "malaise" speech in 1979. Starmer is starting out with a sober equivalent. I hope there's going to be some good news also. #LabourConference24
Watching Nesta's early years event - the critical role of early years investment #LabourConference24 (can't see in photo but packed out room which is brill)
Support for: arts education @ NEU; apprenticeships & the people working in education @ Catherine McKinnell; early years @ Bridget Phillipson MP; and a positive & hopeful story about the future @ Ahir Shah #LabCon24 #LabourConference24
